Over the past year I've said goodbye to many people.. friends and family in West Michigan, friends from Snow Mountain Ranch, friends from Crooked Creek Ranch, friends and family in West Michigan again, and now my dear Norwegian friends from the Mission Alliance.
I love traveling to new places and going on new adventures. It's a blessing to see different parts of God's beautiful creation. But none of that matters without people.. the people and relationships are what I have treasured the most. The conversations and experiences I will never forget.
In Acts 2:42-47 Luke describes how the earliest Christians lived in fellowship with one another:
"They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And The Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved."
So today I say goodbye to my dear friends Sunniva and Ragnhild (and recently Marie and Thea). You welcomed me with open arms and it has been a blessing to live and serve with you all over the past three months. I wish you all the best and hope to see you again in this lifetime or the next.
God bless,
Mark
